Gun Control Case Studies Samples For Students

(Professor/Instructor)

With the rash of mass shootings that are frighteningly rising in America’s schools and streets, the issue of gun control has once again been thrust into the societal limelight. The fact that “loose guns” are finding their way to nefarious elements is an issue that is being debated in society as well as in legislatures. And in any debate, there are two sides that are aggressively seeking to gain the “upper hand” in presenting their cases to the public, and ultimately, sway public opinion enough to influence the manner that laws are drafted. One of these sides ...

Criminal Law

Abstract
Key words: gun policies, campus shooting, laws, violence and gun owners.
There number campus shootings that took place for the past years have significantly increased such as in the case of the 2012 shooting incident that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that resulted to the death of twenty (20) students. Another worst campus shooting incident in the history of the U.S. is the Virginia Tech massacre that happened in 2007 in the school campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Virginia, which caused the death of 32 people and left 17 others badly injured. In ...

A gunman killed six people Tucson, Arizona and in a similar incident, 12 people died after a shooting in Colorado. This is in addition to multiple school shootings, which captured the headlines in the country, and point to even bigger underlying problems related to gun ownership laws, punishment laws, gang culture and partisan politics. The gun-related murders reach as high as 16,000 annually, with more than five million crimes involving guns (Rogers 1). The self-defence and constitutionally enshrined rights to own crimes have for centuries been pitted against the need to create a gun-less society, which is thought to be multiply ...